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CHAPTER 14 FIRST AID
ACTIVITY
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Your body is protected by a layer of skin. From time to time your skin may be damaged. Any damage to, or break in your skin is called a wound.
Look closely on this page. Have you ever hurt yourself in this way? Tick the boxes if you have.
An Incised A Graze Bruises A Puncture
Wound Wound
Cause: Cause: Cause: Cause:
A sharp blade or piece of glass. A sliding fall. The top layer of A bang or blow which does not A needle, nail, a spike - in fact
skin is scraped off. break the skin, but bursts the any thin pointed object could
Risk/Problem:
This wound may be very deep, Risk/Problem: blood vessels underneath it. cause a puncture wound.
and the muscle underneath the Dirt or grit often gets into the The black/purple colour is Risk/Problem:
skin may also be damaged. graze. This may lead to trapped blood. A nail may go deep
This wound may gush infection. Risk/Problem: into the flesh carrying
blood if a vessel has Really nasty bruises germs with it. There is
been cut. might mean a deeper a high risk of infection.
injury such as a fracture.
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